There’s a lot of talk these days about how we’re all creating our own echo chambers, reflecting our own viewpoints back at ourselves in a constant chorus driving us further apart, to the point where we don’t even get the same news reports anymore. And certainly this is true to a frightening extent; ask VR [...]

Yesterday, Oklahoma’s House passed a bill allowing adoption and foster care agencies to turn away couples whose existences violate their “sincerely held religious beliefs.” And we all know what kinds of couples do THAT, don’t we? After a 60-26 vote in favor, the House passed SB 1140, which has already been passed in the Oklahoma [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals has reversed a county judge’s refusal to grant a name change to a transgender person. The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma Foundation, representing Angela Ingram, had appealed Oklahoma County Judge Bill Graves’s denial of her application to change her legally recognized name from James Dean Ingram to Angela Renee Ingram. [...]

Staff Reports TULSA, Okla. — Just one week after a judge struck down Oklahoma’s 2004 voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, a state lawmaker has filed a bill that would call for a second vote to amend the Oklahoma Constitution to again ban same-sex marriage. Rep. Mike Turner (R-Edmond, Okla.), on Tuesday said he filed the measure in [...]